Yesterday, I watched the newest, and sadly the last Harry Potter movie – Harry Potter 7 part 2 – The Deathly Hallows. But this blog isn’t going to talk about what I thought about the movie, or the sadness I feel, knowing that the Harry Potter story is over (not including the soon-to-be-released pottermore…) You have no idea how tempting it was to talk about the last movie, and the idea that with the last movie, a generation of Harry Potter madness is over.

No, instead, I shall talk about Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans. One thing I know everyone will remember from the Harry Potter movies is the banquet halls filled with food. Hopefully a lot of people also remember the Trolley on the Hogwarts Express – the one with all the candy! If not, then what the hell have you been doing with your life fool? Anyway, Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans are one of the goodies on the trolly – a box of beans with pretty much any possible flavor in the world. I mean, “Fred swore he got a bogey flavored one once”!

A long time ago – when the first movie came out (I think…) someone gave my sister and I a bag full of Harry Potter type sweets, some of which were Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans. What relevance has this to do with my “reminiscent blogs” that I’m writing this summer? Well, read on to find out!

Normally, after about 8 years, you would *assume* that all the candy in that bag my sister and I got would have been eaten. You would have assumed wrong. As I was helping my mom clean certain parts of our house, I found a box of Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans. After 8 years. Seriously.

I shook the box a little, but didn’t hear the normal rattling sound one hears when there are “beans” inside a box. I was tempted to open the box straight away, but then thought “hmm.. the last movie comes out in two weeks, why don’t I keep it for the day I watch it, then blog about opening the box?” And that’s exactly what I’m doing.

Since I didn’t hear the beans moving inside, I figured they’d somehow melted and possibly merged into one giant blob of gummy bean goop. As you can see in the following three pictures, I took the plastic wrapping off the box. In the last picture, you can see the expiry date for these beans. Incase it isn’t obvious to you, the date reads 20th November 2004.

I then proceeded to trying to open up the box. Now, I’m not some mega-muscled muscle woman or anything close to that, (actually I have no upper body strength at all), and was having difficulty getting the box to open. I finally managed to pry out one end of it, and realized that some of the goop from the beans had actually gotten between the side of the box and the flap that needed to be removed (fourth picture), which explains why it wasn’t easy to open the box.

I ripped a bit of the top off accidently, and finally saw what had happened to the beans inside. Take a look.. if you dare!

The beans had, to a certain extent, lost their shape. They’d start moulding together into one giant big blob of goop.. I wish I had had two boxes – I would have attempted to keep the second box for a few years, and then opened it to see what had happened to it after that!

So ya, that was what I spent part of my time doing yesterday… Opening a box of (at least) seven year old Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans. What did you spend your time doing? Huh?

Haha I was afraid everyone would start writing their thoughts on the last movie … I just wrote about fantasy in general but I think you beat me in the indirectness. That’s really amazing you kept a box of candy for so many years, never would be allowed here. Are they actually every flavor? O/_\O I would’ve expected them to be crawling with bugs actually.

A Eureka contest? Sounds interesting! I always love entering contests when I have free time:D I think I will enter:)

Thanks! I’m planning on applying for IB this upcoming sophomore year. I heard from a lot of people that it is a challenging experience. During Junior and Senior year what are the best classes to take? What are some of the most challenging IB courses?
And what’s up with IB CAS essays? What are they all about? x) Ha, I’m curious to know everything about the IB program. 😀

Thanks for the comment on my last blog post! Most people agree to the extent, that it a blog shouldn’t focus just on people’s life drama or there site updates, rather a wider range of topics. And no, I don’t think your blog is boring. Actually I find your blog posts to be quite intriguing!:D I always look forward to reading them!:)
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Ha, I’ve been seeing a reoccurring trend, most people are blogging about Harry Potter!:D Including me. But I do have to say, that it’s sad seeing how the Harry Potter phenomena has come to an end. So much has happened since the first movie to the last movie, I’m glad I was a part of this phenomena. I’m glad I saw the movie yesterday, I literally cried as I saw everything come to an end. I remember I was really obsessed, and I still am with Harry Potter. Ha, I even started the Harry Potter club back in the 5th grade, we only had 8 members though.xD
I’m glad I followed Harry Potter until the very end. Long live Harry Potter!

As for Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans, wow! After almost 8 years I still can’t believe it! Ha it’s pretty cool that you found them 8 years later seeing as Harry Potter ended just a few days ago. 😀

I was terrified there was going to be a spoiler because I haven’t seen HP yet! I’m going tomorrow with my friend who I’ve seen every Harry Potter film with. We’ll probably cry when it’s ended since we’ve dedicated a good 10 years to the series. I still don’t really get what Pottermore actually is. I mean the website doesn’t exactly give much away. I’m sure it’ll be awesome all the same. And nooo, it was George who swore he got the bogey flavoured one!! 😀

I’m afraid it has to be said that those beans look gross! Eight years is a long time! I once found a packet of Chewits under my bed, they’d been there for a few years. Ew! I remember when I was about seven and all the kids at school were trading chocolate frog cards, I can’t remember what happened to mine, I can only hope that they’re lurking in my room, along with the Pokemon cards and Lord of the Rings! 🙂 Oh, the memories!

I can’t believe anyone actually read my last blog post, it was so long winded and dull! You deserve a medal! But yes, the concert was brilliant, and I’ve finally fulfilled my eight year old dream of seeing Robbie Williams live. Haha yes, RW was in Take That back in 1990 until he fell out with like the entire band and so they split up and RW launched his solo career. Then in 2005 Take That reformed without RW, and then he apologized and joined the band in 2010.

I never really liked Harry Potter that much. o3o And lots of people are blogging about the movie! XD It’s getting kind of annoying for me…It’s like every single person I know that has a blog has been blogging about it! Nice to see a change from you. c:

Lol the name of those sweets sound pretty funny..XD And a bogey flavoured one..Gah! That sounds disgusting. XD LOLOLOL. After 8 years, you still have the box! And the lollies look DISGUSTING. Dx But it’s still pretty awesome how you managed to keep them for so long! c:

I have yet to see the new HP film. I have read all the books though so I’m not like “omg what happens next”. I just want to see it because I want to know how well they done the last part of the story. I heard it’s the best one yet.

Holy crap! No way! You kept them that long? Were they behind a bunch of stuff or something? I mean, really, that is almost sick! Did they smell at all? Was it still fruitish smelling? That is extremely interesting to say the least! Maybe I will have to “forget” something sometime and see what happens!

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I wish you the best of luck. It’s a pretty grueling process, that involves a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. And you’re close — I’m a history major.

The HP-ness of this post makes me sad. I’ve seen the last movie twice, and read the last book twice, but for some reason, reading your post about Bertie Botts is what is making me sad. It just brings me back to the early days of the books, when I was a kid and was waiting, patiently, for the newest book to come out. It’s depressing, knowing that’s not going to happen again.

Oh wow that took a long time before you were able to open it up! It’s been awhile since I had some jelly beans and i’m not really as gutsy in trying out the really extreme flavors :p Hehe. Too bad I wasn’t able to watch the latest HP movie yet. I’m thinking of checking out the first few movies again and start from there.

Oh geez, that’s a long time to have jelly beans! I wasn’t a fan of Bertie Botts ( of jelly beans in gen for that matter) but I still had a bag, mainly because it came in a fancy bag a Borders. I spend my past few days running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off -.- But i FINALLY got things done, so i’m feeling good now =]

Sorry for the double post but I just saw your comment on my blog (told you that I was all over the place…) But being an English TA is very cool I think but also very demanding. It doesn’t help that I have dyslexia too lol But basically what I’d do was help the students identify what style they should write in, what vernacular was appropriate, expand their diction and point out syntax and grammatical errors. It was a lot of work but it was worth it and the pay was pretty good.

Ah, the new movie was quite sad, I can’t believe it’s over already!
That’s pretty crazy how those beans turned out lmao! I guess they must of overheated/melted or… just got old aha. I know I would have eaten them right when I got them c:
Ah, these past few days I’ve just been lounging about at home, it’s way to hot to do anything outside right now, I wish summer wouldn’t be so hot!

I had those beans when I was little! I’ve been a Harry Potter fan since I was 7 years old, and I started reading the books when I was 8. I can’t believe that 10 years of my life and really, my childhood, is over. Sad day. I just saw the new movie yesterday. I think I was one of the last serious Harry Potter fans to see it, I swear. I couldn’t go before because I always go with my dad, and he wanted to wait until his Birthday. So we went on his birthday. I cried, honestly. ): But it was amazing. I’m gonna see it again if I get the chance. 🙂

But back to those beans. That’s gross! Haha. xD Seven years old, eh? I had a little box of them when I was about 10. They came in a little pouch thingy, and I remember eating them. Seriously some gross flavors. Bogie? Yepp, I tried one. Yuck. Haha. 😛
Very close to the ones in the books though. 🙂

I’ve tried those beans before, when I was about in 5th grade, hehe. Are you still going to eat them after they’ve expired? o_O

I haven’t seen any of the Harry Potter movies, except part of the first one, and I think I saw the 4th one. D= I’m probably like one of the few on the universe, however, I do plan on watching all of them. 🙂

I hope you enjoyed growing up with Harry Potter :P! I- unfortunately didn’t grew with Harry :(. I was never into it past the 1st movie :'(..

o:! That is some crazy discovery you have there! Seriously, food kept for like 8 years is just amazing and trippy! But thank god it was jelly beans, not something like.. A tomato XD! I wonder how the jelly beans would’ve tasted after 8 years. Someone would know :o!

At the most, anything that we have that is old is.. Some preservatives my parents made. My parents tried to make some sort of wine from fermenting grapes. For all I care, those bottles probably have holes in it D:!

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A lot of people have been writing about the movie soooo it was a bit relieving seeing that you weren’t going to blog all about the movie. It is sad that this whole sort of chapter in everyone’s lives is over, everyone got pretty emotional after watching the movie. I am not a fan and I don’t follow Harry Potter but it’s interesting reading what other people thought.

I haven’t ever had those beans, but I’ve had other jelly beans that have had many different flavours. All in all, melted goo jelly beans are not cool. I think 2004 is a really, really long time and those wouldn’t exactly be safe to eat. I have aunts who worked in chocolate/candy factories and often they would get expired/old bars back, but they would open them up, check them, and usually repackage them. Because it’s a dry food it tends not to rot, so a few months after the date and it should usually still be okay to eat. As for drinks and wet food probably not… XD

Wow that looks so cool, I’ve never had those or seen them before. It doesn’t look that great now :S, but I’m sure they would’ve tasted amazing if you had them like seven years ago haha. I’m not a big fan of jelly beans, but I would’ve definitely eaten those!

Aw, somehow i thought it got wasted. You can keep the box that went with it instead if you want memorabilia. I’m not an HP fan, i’ve seen the first one and it feels like a long time ago lol! and i can only remember some scenes.

Way back I can remember how me and my sister went crazy when the Spice Girls came out, they have this lollipop in stores that has random stickers inside and i use to buy them and keep the stickers and their wrappers too but i ate the lollipop haha! Up until now i still keep those wrappers. Lots of memories! :))

A lot of my friends cried during that movie. I didn’t, but I was pretty damn close!

It is the end of an era.

I would be too scared to eat those Jelly Beans; I see a variation of it around, and, whenever any of my friends buys it for fun, I never even attempt to get any. I’m nice to my tongue! I wouldn’t want it to suffer!

Woah. Expired for almost 7 years. I’d be surprised if they didn’t look gross.

(Oops! Sorry for the split post! My computer glitched!) from 4 years ago that I won at school. They aren’t beans though (I managed to finish those off with my friends at lunch the same day I won them).

I LOVED Harry Potter and I hate that its over.. I seen the final movie yesterday *sighs*. I to have so many memories with this whole entire saga lol. I remeber the Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans also, I remeber getting a box of them at the theatre when it first came out, and every time I would get a box it never failed that I would get the most disgusting flavors lol. But it was still all fun.

I would actually try eating that candy even though it’s way too expired. It still looks kind of good, though. XD

A couple years ago someone brought Harry Potter candy to school. I’m not sure if they were Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans, but some of the flavors were really bad. There were vomit flavors and dirt flavors. I tried the dirt flavored bean and it tasted really bad. I washed it out with water. 🙂